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Printed Cardboard Containers
Printed Cardboard Containers
What is Cartonboard?
Cartonboard is a multilayered material, typically incorporating three or more layers or plies, derived from wood. The main variants of printed cardboard containers are solid bleached board, solid unbleached board, folding boxboard and white lined chipboard. Cartonboard usually has a white, pigmented coating on one or both surfaces.
Product Specifications
Product specifications vary with respect to the pulp composition of the various layers and by the grammage (weight per sq. metre in grammes) and thickness. It can be combined with other materials to vary the visual appearance and to extend the protective properties. Typical additions would include laminations, coatings and impregnations. The various layers of the printed cardboard containers are combined in a wet state on the board making machine, and might consist of one or several different types of pulp. The top layer of the board generally has a smooth white pigmented coating based on china clay or calcium carbonate. The reverse side may also be coated or it may be white, brown, cream or gray in colour depending on the grade of fibre used.
Papers and cardboards are classified by their fibre composition, the processing, manufacture and treatment at the mill,...
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Make Effective Impression With Quality Product Packaging
Packaging is essential for storage, sale and shipping supplies. The demand of packaging increases with increase in industries. In contemporary world, packaging has become a complete science that study all features of product to be packaged such as air, moisture, sensitivity of light, chemical reaction, degree of fragility and many more. It also tries to search the solution to increase protection and decrease cost. The role of packaging goods has changed with the time. There are numerous types of packaging that includes industrial packaging, hazardous material packaging, transport packaging, etc. Packaging helps to protect your products from damages during transportation. Today, packaging is expression at its finest, shapes, colors, etc.
Packaging mainly used in telecom, automobiles, ware houses, factories or any other industry. There are lots of packaging companies that offer reliable packaging services as per the needs of customer. They offer lightweight, collapsible and customizable packaging services for all sorts of products. Packaging is the requirement of every business to export their products from one place to another.
There are lots of benefits of packaging:
1) Save products from damages
2) Suitable for almost every type of products
3) Increase protection and decrease cost
4) For long duration
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Packaging Articles
Bringing Branding Benefits to Beer
Ever since 1875, when the Bass red triangle became the first registered trademark, brewers have recognised the importance of on beer bottle branding, and now the latest printing technologies are being harnessed to achieve the best packaging impact for today's brewers. Beer bottle labels play a major role in ensuring that beer packaging has strong impact at the point of sale. Packaging technology is advancing dramatically, with innovations in the printing, production and application of beer labels, and a move away from the traditional wet glue labels to high impact self adhesive labels. Recent developments in print technology have helped improve the aesthetic quality of self adhesive labels. High-end print techniques such as foils, special links and MetalFX provide a visually attractive label, able to fulfil brewer's stringent brand values. The economics of self adhesives have also been transformed with specialist label and packaging printers now available to produce high quality labels in economic short runs. Traditional wet glue labels are applied by using adhesive on the bottling line. As they need to sit on the bottling line in a box or magazine each made specifically for a single label size and format, this process tends to limit the range...
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Material Handling Costs Significantly Reduced Through Returnable Packaging Leader Container Exchanger
Returnable packaging reduces waste created by every business, including material handling. According to David Madden, President of Container Exchanger recently reported that, “Returnable packaging improves material handling by reducing the number of moves from stackable containers. This type of lean manufacturing and distribution metric is quantifiable and makes this environmentally sound decision a good business choice as well.” Container Exchanger is an online marketplace that offers manufacturing and distribution businesses an outlet for procuring or selling used returnable packaging. The product offerings include many standard and common reusable packaging solutions, including but not limited to plastic totes, plastic collapsible bulk boxes, metal containers, wire baskets, and plastic pallets. Launched in 2005, ContainerExchanger.com has empowered companies to reduce packaging acquisition costs through access to used returnable packaging inventories and it has enabled companies to maximize return during disposal of their used packaging fleets. The EarthWorks Group estimates that 30% of landfill waste is created by plastic and paper packaging. The use of cardboard products and other one-time-use packaging products contribute to this waste. The per piece packaging costs for used bulk containers and totes can be as low as 5% of the costs for a comparable expendable solution, depending on shipping...
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